John Levin just shared these articles with me. I found these records years ago in a little honey hole in the midwest.
It's great to see some national press on the stewardship of preserving brown wax recordings.
Ken Flaherty
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-a ... n-we-think
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-a ... recordings
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-a ... how-we-got
LA Times: Brown Wax Preservation
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Looks very interesting but... all I can see in the links are subscription advertisements.
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Here in England I have had no difficulty in viewing and reading all three articles. Thanks to Ken for posting the links.
Oliver Mundy.
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Ditto all three visible no problemsMenophanes wrote:Here in England I have had no difficulty in viewing and reading all three articles. Thanks to Ken for posting the links.
Oliver Mundy.
didn't realise so many cylinder recordings could be heard apparently 10,000 ! You no longer need to own any You can download them all
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/browse.php
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Let us not forget. a message to the American people
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detai ... r=25&of=44
Let us not forget. a message to the American people
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/detai ... r=25&of=44
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The USCB Cylinder Archive has been online for years.soundgen wrote:Ditto all three visible no problemsMenophanes wrote:Here in England I have had no difficulty in viewing and reading all three articles. Thanks to Ken for posting the links.
Oliver Mundy.
didn't realise so many cylinder recordings could be heard apparently 10,000 ! You no longer need to own any You can download them all
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/browse.php
Nice to see them get a little promoting though.
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pity no one on the forum said beforeWolfe wrote:The USCB Cylinder Archive has been online for years.soundgen wrote:Ditto all three visible no problemsMenophanes wrote:Here in England I have had no difficulty in viewing and reading all three articles. Thanks to Ken for posting the links.
Oliver Mundy.
didn't realise so many cylinder recordings could be heard apparently 10,000 ! You no longer need to own any You can download them all
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/browse.php
Nice to see them get a little promoting though.
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Re: LA Times: Brown Wax Preservation
There are over 300 references to the UCSB site on the forum dating as far back as 2009. search.php?keywords=ucsb